· Private foundation
The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AAF SALZBURG WEILL CORNELL | $4,000 |
| NY TIMES NEEDIEST CASES FUND | $4,000 |
| NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS | $1,500 |
| FREUD FOUNDATION US | $1,000 |
| SBT CHARITABLE FUND | $1,000 |
| TFFJ-TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE | $1,000 |
| ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS | $750 |
| CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| SWARTHMORE COLLEGE | $350 |
| CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIV | $350 |
| MYRIAD USA | $250 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $250 |
| STXBP1 FOUNDATION | $250 |
| PIANOFEST INC | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VOVIENNESE OPERA BALL2× · 2017–2018 · $14k · revenue +304% · 38% of their budget
- PAPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC5× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +110%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $10k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- GRGeorges River Land Trustone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -23%
- GSGERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
How this is measured
45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds VIENNESE OPERA BALL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND ↗
- Who funds PEN AMERICAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds THE SALZBURG FESTIVAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FREUD FOUNDATION US ↗
- Who funds NEW CLASSROOMS INNOVATION PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOOKS FOR KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Civil Liberties Union of Virginia ↗
- Who funds Georges River Land Trust ↗
- Who funds ELYSIUM BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds GERMAN-AMERICAN SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON BATH & TENNIS CLUB CHARITABLE FUND ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TEENS FOR FOOD JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Mark Zurack & Kathy Ferguson Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stephen and Deborah Harnik Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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